Quotes about Dependence
A man is powerful on his knees.
- Corrie Ten Boom
What is the use of praying if at the very moment of prayer, we have so little confidence in God that we are busy planning our own kind of answer to our prayer?
- Thomas Merton
If we rely on the Holy Spirit, we shall find that our prayers become more and more inarticulate; and when they are inarticulate, reverence grows deeper and deeper.
- Oswald Chambers
Prayer is the answer to every problem there is.
- Oswald Chambers
Jesus' pattern prayer, which is both crutch, road, and walking lesson for the spiritually lame like ourselves, tells us to start with God: for God matters infinitely more than we do.
- JI Packer
Our prayers must not be efforts to bend God to our will but to yield ourselves to His.
- Catherine Marshall
Our prayer is a heart search. It is a reminder to ourselves that we are helpless without His support.
- Mahatma Gandhi
His nature is such that our often coming does not tire him. The whole burden of the whole life of every man may be rolled on to God and not weary him, though it has wearied man.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Our minds can be kept free of anxiety as we dump the load of our cares on the Lord in prayer.
- Charles Swindoll
We find, sooner or later, that in prayer we either abandon ourselves or we abandon prayer.
- E Stanley Jones
Unless I had the spirit of prayer I could do nothing.
- Charles Finney
Man is the only creature which rises by bowing for he finds elevation in his subjection to his Maker.
- Anonymous